Re: viewport units in SVG from Tab Atkins Jr. on 2014-07-23 (www-svg@w3.org from July 2014)

From: Tab Atkins Jr. <jackalmage@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2014 10:39:08 -0700
To: Chris Lilley <chris@w3.org>
Cc: Dirk Schulze <dschulze@adobe.com>, www-svg <www-svg@w3.org>, FX <public-fx@w3.org>
Message-ID: <CAAWBYDAgWtXsypfA4J9Gz78A60StSxynXfQeAk_CYOU=9Ert0w@mail.gmail.com>

On Wed, Jul 23, 2014 at 8:19 AM, Chris Lilley <chris@w3.org> wrote:
> Wednesday, July 23, 2014, 4:25:31 PM, you wrote:
>>  (It applies
>> to MQs too, etc.)  This means that a *linked* SVG, via <iframe> or
>> <img> or the like, would use the linking element's dimensions to
>> define its viewport units, but an inline SVG would use the outer
>> document.  This seems fine to me.
>
> Yes.
>
> Furthermore, HTML (or whatever)styled with CSS box model, inside SVG
> foreignObject, would use the size of the foreignObject viewport to
> define its viewport units (like the iframe case)  and also as the size
> of its outermost containing block.

Yeah, <foreignObject> is basically an inline-markup iframe.

~TJ

Received on Wednesday, 23 July 2014 17:39:58 UTC